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Mediterranean Style Garden Design Ideas: From Plants and Containers to Seating and Furniture

Garden, Lawn & Landscaping

You perhaps have some pleasant memories of the colorful Mediterranean style gardens you may have visited on a visit to Italy or Greece. Or perhaps you have your heart set on the charming garden vistas photographed in an interior design magazine you saw. Either ...Read More

What Are High Pressure Sodium Grow Lights and What Do They Do?

Garden, Lawn & Landscaping

Gardeners can be very inventive when they put their minds to it. The concept of grow lights was developed when certain practical problems presented themselves: how does one grow plants indoors? Or how does one grow certain plants that are not suited to local ...Read More

How to Plant Fruit Trees: Tips to Pick the Right Tree and Spot

Garden, Lawn & Landscaping

The idea of being able to pluck fresh, juicy fruit off a tree in your own garden to bite into or to bake into a pie is an enticing one. And if you’re lucky enough to have even a modest sized outdoor space to ...Read More

Renovating an Old House: Where to Start

Improvement & Maintenance

You may not want to tear down an old house – it may be a charming or structure that you want to preserve or you may have a sentimental attachment to it due to past memories. In many cases it makes economical sense to ...Read More

Formal Garden Design Ideas for Small Outdoors

Garden, Lawn & Landscaping

You may only have a small outdoor area to call a garden, but there is no reason why you cannot make the best of it; no reason why you cannot take that limited amount of space and transform it. You can make your garden ...Read More

Choosing the Right Self Pollinating Apple Tree Varieties for Your Garden

Garden, Lawn & Landscaping

There is great joy and satisfaction in growing and eating one’s own fresh and home grown produce. Consider how wonderful it would be to be able to walk out into your garden and pick out fresh fruit to bake into an apple pie. However ...Read More

Window Decoration Ideas for Summer

Design & Decoration

Summer is a time defined by images of bright sunshine, beautiful floral motifs and light airy colors. Your home décor and particularly window decoration for summer should reflect this. Ideally you want summer window treatments that will let in plenty of natural light, to ...Read More

How to Stop a Door from Slamming

Improvement & Maintenance

It may sound little a petty, trifling question – how to stop a door from slamming – but consider how annoying it can be to have a door that keeps slamming. It is noisy and it is inconvenient when the door will not stay ...Read More

Use Italian Garden Furniture to Transform Your Outdoor Space

Furniture & Fittings

The very thought of Italian furniture calls forth images of elegant, stylish, ornate furniture that could grace the most stylish of living spaces. Attractive design, coupled with practical comfort is the hallmark of traditional Italian furniture designers and this tradition is upheld even in ...Read More

All About Dwarf Plum Trees: When, Where and How to Plant

Garden, Lawn & Landscaping

As any experienced orchardist knows, the advantages of dwarf fruit trees are many – the trees take up less space and so more numbers can be accommodated in a given area, the fruit is more accessible and pruning is easier. And this holds good ...Read More

10 Things You Should Know About Organic Garden Seeds and Plants

Featured, Garden, Lawn & Landscaping

If you want to know about organic garden seeds and plants you’re not alone – many people now look to avoid the chemical pesticides, the growth hormones and chemical fertilizers that are to be found in most produce today. So whether you’re a beginner ...Read More

Christmas Home Decoration Ideas

Design & Decoration

A big part of the fun of Christmas is the decoration of the home. Setting up the tree, festooning the house, putting up fairy lights – there is so much that you can do to make the home look festive and ‘Christmasy’, which adds ...Read More